The number of non-farm jobs added in the United States in recent months has inched up, and the unemployment rate has held steady at 5%, but that’s not to say the computer and networking industry hasn’t suffered its share of layoffs in 2016 to date.

Here’s a rundown of some of the more notable layoffs, workforce reductions, resizings or whatever companies want to call them.

Cisco: The company revealed in August, as it was announcing year-end financial results, that it would jettisoning 5,500 employees in an effort to reinvest resources in the very hottest areas, including cloud computing, internet of things and security.

Or as Cisco put it: "Today, we announced a restructuring enabling us to optimize our cost base in lower growth areas of our portfolio and further invest in key priority areas such as security, IoT, collaboration, next generation data center and cloud. We expect to reinvest substantially all of the cost savings from these actions back into these businesses and will continue to aggressively invest to focus on our areas of future growth."

Microsoft’s 2013 buyout of Nokia’s mobile phone business hasn’t panned out, with Microsoft’s market share stagnating as Android and Apple phones continue to gobble up market share. Microsoft has sold off its feature phone business and is sticking to enterprise-only technology, where it feels it can differentiate itself.

Nokia: Speaking of Nokia... the telecom network equipment maker was said in April to be cutting thousands of jobs globally following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. The cuts are part of a plan by the vendor to slash operational costs by $1B over the next couple of years

The company has acknowledged declines in its traditional virtual compute business, but has its sights set on playing a bigger role in the public and hybrid cloud markets, so the potential is there for VMware to offset its layoffs with new hires in those areas. Though rivals like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft won’t make it easy for VMware.

Intel: The chipmaker in April revealed that it is slashing 12,000 jobs worldwide as it refocuses on growth areas such as Internet of Things and servers in light of a dwindling PC market. That figure accounts for about 11% of total employees at Intel, which is also consolidating work locations.

Broadcom: The chipmaker, which counts Apple among its high profile customers, said in March it would be cutting 1,900 employees in the wake of its $37B merger with Avago and the resulting job redundancies.

BlackBerry:The beleaguered mobile company said in February that it had cut 200 more jobs at its Waterloo headquarters and in Sunrise, Fla. CIO.com’s Al Sacco documented at the time how BlackBerry has become a serial job cutter in recent years, with three rounds last year alone, and that the cuts seemed to indicate a serious move away from the device business. He noted that the company back in early 2015 said it had a little more than 6,000 employees overall at the time.

NetApp: The storage company in October revealed, via an SEC filing, that it plans to cut 6% of its staff as part of a restructuring. That adds up to about 640 people from a workforce of 10,700. NetApp has been challenged to compete with cloud-based offerings as it transitions into becoming more of a cloud and software company itself, while also pushing more into the flash storage market, such as through its SolidFire acquisition earlier this year.

Bob Brown is a news editor for Network World, blogs about network research, and works most closely with our staff's wireless/mobile reporters. Email me at bbrown@nww.com with story tips or comments on this post.